WANSTALL, P.J. (editor). Darwin Centenary. The report of the conference held by The Botanical Society of the British Isles in 1959 to mark the Centenary of the publication of The Origin Of Species. The Botanical Society of the British Isles. 1961.
8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. 140, 6 plates including frontispiece portrait of Darwin, text illustrations; spine a little sunned, a few spots to fore-edge, very good.
First edition. A collection of lectures given at the conference ranging from Nora Barlow, Darwin's grand-daughter, on his legacy as a botanist to new work on plant variation, genetics and breeding.
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